A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late ...

After Green Day’s legendary rise to prominence in 1994 following the release of “Dookie” and striking lightning twice a decade later with “American Idiot,” the band finally performed at ...

In the remote expanse of the Gobi desert stands the first thorium (Th) reactor ever built. Last year, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences showed that this two-megawat ...

An international team including UNIGE reveals that the Arabian Peninsula desert once hosted a vast lake and rivers, which ...

Chinese scientists have refuelled an experimental thorium-fueled molten salt reactor continuously without shutting it down.

Chinese scientists achieved a breakthrough in clean energy technology by adding fresh fuel to an operational thorium reactor.

This marks the first time anyone has successfully reloaded fuel in an operational thorium molten salt reactor (MSR) without ...

Seven environmental activists from around the world will be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize on April 21. Known as the ...

Weekend 1 of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio packed even more of a punch than we expected, and now thousands of more people are headed to the California desert for Weekend 2.

Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near Margham, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A new study adds evidence to theories that this region was once a wet, green climate.

The Taklimakan Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region covers 337,600 square kilometers and its circumference measures 3,046 kilometers, making it the largest desert in China ...

Recent research suggested the so-called Empty Quarter, the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula ... was regularly lush and green over a period of 8million years. At one point it featured a lake that ...